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2021

Excerpt from EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME:

“Assembly-line production, introduced during the industrial era, increased efficiency. Each worker would produce only a single component of the final object, optimizing the overall process. This monotonous, repetitive work is exhausting for the body and the mind. We encounter, in part, a contemporary version of the alienation and physical work of the production line in today’s labour in front of the computer screen – e.g. in the service industry, IT or even in creative sectors. It is often difficult to identify the broader meaning behind individual tasks, and our bodies remain immobile/ rigid/frozen, except for the fingertips that repeatedly perform the same movements on the keyboard. In this installation industrial work merges with “keyboard-work”: instead of transporting items, the conveyor belt has been modified with hand-like extensions that repeatedly hit the keyboard.” – Hannah Toticki

Photos by Paris Tavitian